Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Just to fill you in, the discussion centred on the idea of doing a > listdir() of the directory the FileFinder was in charge of watching > and caching that. Then, when it had to look up a file all it had to do > was stat the directory to look for a change before it simply looked at > a frozenset of directory contents. That does away with having to stat > for every file type (directory, module, extension, etc.) and replaces > it with one upfront listdir() and then a single directory stat per > lookup.
Ah, then it's basically what my patch does (except that it also computes all potential module names instead of dumping the os.listdir() result in a frozenset). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14043> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
